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15/4/2008

Hanne Darboven

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

The dates presented in “Buch der Bilder – Fin de Siècle” (Book of Pictures – Fin de Siècle; 1992-1993) by German artist Hanne Darboven encompass the years 1988 – when preliminary work commenced – to 1999, the close of the 20th century. Darboven began by registering these dates in note and exercise books; displayed alongside this data were photographs, including those showing objects from the artist’s collection. Finally, these booklets were photographed page by page, and these images mounted on sheets. Groups of 25 sheets were then collected into altogether 52 large format albums. There are also 376 working sheets with collaged photographs and 42 illustrated panels. The title of this work alludes to Rainer Maria Rilke’s volume of poems Buch der Bilder (Book of Images) of 1902, and hence casts a backward glance from the late 20th century to the epoch of Jugendstil and the turn from the 19th to the 20th centuries.

In collaboration with the Freunde der Nationalgalerie (Friends of the Nationalgalerie), the museum is attempting to purchase this important work.

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Anna & Bernhard Blume
Pure Reason

until 10th August

Artists Anna and Bernhard Blume, born in 1937, have significantly extended the genre of the staged photograph, and they number among its most renowned exponents internationally. In their frequently multipart, large format, black–and–white photoseries, this artistic couple stages temporal sequences within which they themselves act as protagonists. The scenes are often reduced, estranged, and above all odd: order and chaos seem to mutually condition one another, role–playing and convention inhere in each object, conditioning modes of behavior and provoking resistance. With their diagnoses of the contemporary condition, the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume always interweave performance, painting, and photography. Deformation and metaphor, subjective perception and collective conventions are thematized, thereby touching on the question of whether the boundaries of the visible also determine those of experience. The exhibition “Reine Vernunft” (Pure Reason), their first comprehensive appearance in Berlin, provides an overview of the ironical and philosophical strategy employed by this artistic team, which critically opposes the elevation of the artist as representative of a petit–bourgeois milieu. On display, among others, is the early work “Ödipale Komplikationen” (Oedipal Complications; 1977/78), as well as “Küchenkoller” (Kitchen Frenzy; 1985) and “Abstrakte Kunst” (Abstract Art; 2002-2004). In the context of their intensive dedication to a continuous process of self–experimentation, Anna and Bernhard Blume have performed groundwork on the nature of German existence. Their thesis is as simple as it is astonishing: Before going out into the big, wide, world, one ought to thoroughly investigate “home sweet home” to see whether every conceivable form of misery is not present there already.

Sponsored by the German Capital Cultural Fund.
With generous support from Sander Imaging GmbH.


Image: Buch der Bilder – Fin de Siècle (1992-1993) © Hanne Darboven

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